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Get Out Your Fingers Y’all, Because We Are About To Point and Laugh!

Welcome to another round of Point and Laugh Friday! It’s the day the PSAs dread, but also the one they visit us the most, so everybody slick your hair back and be on your best anti behavior. I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I’ve learned some very valuable lessons this week and even had my life saved. At some point we must pause to give thanks for our PSA counterparts because they just give and give and just when you think they have no more to give….they give us even more. They are truly the Energizer Bunnies of the slaughter debate. In other words, they make a lot of noise, they are really annoying and they just won’t quit. I’ve been very busy in the real world, so let’s get right down to the business of Point and Laugh Friday! Today’s edition will be brought to you by the letter `P’ for paranoid.

I’m kinda sad to tell everybody that Slaughterhouse Sue turned in a very poor effort this week. She kicked things off in fine style by laying down the links as usual, but then quickly faded into oblivion. Her soapbox this week was the TWHA Celebration and the inspections on the horses there. Nevermind the fact that the Big Lick industry has long been a chamber of horrors for the horses they use, the HSUS is involved so the cruelty and abuse must be endorsed. As a result, there was a whole bunch of outrage and whining about The Celebration for a few days until Suey’s followers spotted something shiny and were distracted from this issue. This left Ole Suey to slighter back under her rock to work on some more poetry and dream about a day when every horse wears a USDA sticker on its ass.

Next up, we’ll check in with the dynamic duo of Douchebag Duquette and Holy Theresa Manzella. Not surprisingly with Suey being low profile, we didn’t get to hear from D-bag this week. Perhaps he is off working on his super secret multi-million dollar rescue/rehab/slaughter/college/nail salon/micro-brewery/gas station that he claims is going to save the horse industry and solve the economic crisis. More likely, he’s locked in Suey’s basement and working on his ABCs. Holy Theresa has been busy raising money for her slaughter supporting rescue and is currently trying to sell one of her rescues horses. Despite the PSAs swarming other rescues for `selling’ or putting a higher adoption fee on a horse, it’s ok if Holy Theresa does it because she likes to slaughter horses. That makes it righteous. Other than that she has mostly been whipping herself into a frenzy over the upcoming presidential election and being holier than the rest of us.

Because our leading trio of ignorance was pretty quiet this week, it was Mindy Puppymill Patterson’s turn to step up to the plate and embrace her inner twatwaffle for all to see. I’ve got to give props to Puppymill because she really brought the paranoia in grand style and even woke the UH congregation out of their usual stupor to join in the festivities. Miss Patterson was a force of a nature as she Facebooked her ass off and laid down the links like a boss. She even took the time to blog AND grace Trent Loos with her words of wisdom and paranoia. (http://www.rodeoattitude.com/facesofag/2012/09/06/mindy-patterson-is-sore-about-how-usda-treats-tennessee-walking-horse-folks/) Because good ole Trent was a former feature boy for our Sunday PSA feature, we know that he loves nothing more than some good conspiracy theories and misplaced outrage, just ask Robert Kennedy Jr. Puppymill’s main sources of outrage were the inspections on the Big Lick horses and that Vice Presidential nominee, Paul Ryan, had the unmitigated gall to hire a vegan speech writer. Despite the fact that two of the top PSA battle cries are their personal rights and freedom of choice, they have called for the firing of speech writer Matthew Scully based on his personal rights and freedom of choice. They are absolutely convinced that he is an HSUS plant that will not only brainwash their great white election hope into liking animals, he will also gain access to Area 51 and really jack up this country. Thank God we have people like Puppymill to alert us to these hidden dangers!

Nothing says `animal welfare’ like straddling your next meal…

This past week as been truly a bizarre one in the alternate reality that Mendy Tobiano inhabits. There may or may not be a brand new `personality’ for our petulant pony, but when `it’ attempted to friend people and gain access to discussion groups, it was met with the usual round of paranoia due to the fact that NT was its only friend. While cowering in her private bat cave, she has mostly sent the NT persona out to do the talking and that’s where things got weird. It seems that NT was not content with having 4 PSA followers so she elected to alienate them all in her new mission to solve the horse industry woes. I can’t even make this stuff up. While it was surprising to see NT actually have a moment of clarity and admit that it isn’t likely that slaughter will return to the US, she returned to form by talking out her butt for the remainder of the week. My favorite moment of paranoia courtesy of NT was when she suggested that commercial haulers pay for an endorsement for certain sized loads. Not an all together bad idea, but probably not all that realistic. Where the paranoia came in was the fact that NT spoke strictly from the point of reference of how Missouri currently handles things and somebody `assumed’ that NT was from MO, like we know at least one of her personalities is. NT got a little bit pissed and belligerent. It clearly stuck in the pony’s craw enough that she made a point or blogging about it a day or so later. You know, just so we all know for absolute sure that it’s a team and not just one self-important, unemployed drama queen from the mid-west. I did learn from NT that if you just pull your stats and numbers out of your ass, you can get away with it by saying you `checked around’ and know more than everybody else because you have had horses for years. To that I say; you can have horses for years and still know nothing about them when you think you already know it all. At any rate, I’m considering just making up numbers from now on because it’s less work and NT says it’s ok. Maybe then I’ll have more time to endlessly search the internet to find things to be offended and paranoid over. I also learned that I am far too polite to the readers of this blog, so I shall be insulting you and taking personal offense to all your comments from now on. I haven’t been at this as long as Mendy Tobiano, so I’m glad she’s around to show me the way.

My mole told me this may be appropriate

All in all, it’s been a great week’s work for the anti-slaughter people. Little by little the louder PSA asstards are going underground and keeping their misinformation to themselves. One of our former Sunday poster people didn’t care so much about being featured on here, she felt the need to change her name to “Serahpeena Whatnot”. Perhaps she wants another feature under her new name or something. Buckaroo Harmon has also been quite vocal about how little she cared about her feature on here too. I just love when the PSAs go into an orgy of oversharing their personal information just to show how little they care and then whine when you comment on it. I admit that I’m fairly easily amused though.

As always, I like to leave you with some good things that are going on with the anti-slaughter side of things. I was sent this link a few days ago and I think it’s worth checking out. It’s pretty powerful stuff and it would be nice to see this film get a wide release. (http://www.savingamericashorses.org/)

Lastly, I’d like to update on `Buddy’. He was the horse that the PSAs were calling for his immediate euthanization due to he condition he was in upon surrender to Safe Haven Horse Rescue and Sanctuary. Here was our last update on Buddy: (https://shedrowconfessions.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/updates-and-hypocrisy/) As of a few days ago, he is up to 650 lbs, from the 515 lbs he weighed on his first day with Safe Haven. They have had him in their care since July 19th and I think he’s made some pretty good improvement. I’m not affiliated with this rescue in any way and wouldn’t have even known of them had the PSAs not got all pissed off about this horse. From what I can see, they do some really awesome work.

Sept 2nd

That pretty much wraps up the recap of this past week. We certainly had a lot to laugh about. As always, thank you for the comments and the emails. I can’t be everywhere at once, so I do appreciate the heads up I get. I hope you all take the time to read the comment sections on this blog because that’s where the really good stuff usually gets shared. Please remember, whatever you do, to watch out for those subversive vegan/ vegetarians as they are getting ready to take over the world!

How chilling and disgusting to see SS standing with sweet Belgians behind her. Belgians and other Gentle Giants are being warehoused by Bouvry Exports for slaughter and export to Japan. I often wonder where Bouvry gets so many Belgians. I think I know now.
Belgians and others are also being slaughtered in huge numbers thanks to the Amish/Mennonites and their use ’em and dump ’em beliefs.

Like many PSAs, they don’t understand or know the difference between a cow OR a horse…they are all dollar signs to them.

I’d like to see if the asshat family associated with Suey have ever had any driving, team competition wins……anything because that is what drafts are for right? Or is it all halter for meat like the county fair?

Thanks so much for the update on Buddy. It’s great to see him looking like a horse again! Makes me sure that we continue to do the right thing for the poor souls from our newest case. Bless their resiliency and forgiveness… Vetting is done, just waiting for some bloodwork to come back, and hopeful for a complete recovery for all; even the 32 yr. old OTTB who’s given enough and sure didn’t deserve what she got in return. If she had lost another pound, we’d have lost her and I’ve been hanging onto her by the skin of my teeth all week while she hangs over the brink. She loves her mushy mush and is still bright, nodding and nickering for her little buckets of gruel – she’s quite endearing. I’ve been in touch with her most recent previous owner who’s planning to take her back under her wing to ensure a happy retirement and a good ending without further worry for her. Having no idea about the dire straights that her horse had entered, she had gone to visit and was the whistle blower who inadvertently saved them all. I haven’t laughed very much this week, not laughing today either. What I have done is marvel at the stunningly generous and wonderful equine community who leave the indoor, come in off the trail and pop out of the showring to answer the call when they hear that horses are in need. The outpouring of support – through volunteering their time, working tirelessly to help, donating, offering words of encouragement and their prayers is truly astounding, time and time again. Hey! PSA’s you suck!! You’re the Meat Industry, not the Equine Industry. Just admit it already and go raise some cows. We don’t need ya!!! Oh, and BTW, ultrasounds provided proof that all the mares remain open. I’ll thank God for that one, it’s truly a miracle. 🙂

None too happy about the surprise visit from the various press agencies… What can you do, it’s news. But timing is everything and their timing was less than desirable… If it makes a few people think about where they allow their horses to go when they no longer want to care for them, then job well done. The bottom line is, if you no longer wish to care for your aged horse that you love and have a relationship with, it’s unlikely that someone else does just out of the goodness of their heart. Ya gotta check it out. Check out the person, check out the place and with your own eyeballs. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Second guess everything and go to visit often until you’re sure the horse is being well cared for. The majority of these guys are pretty well aged and this “retirement home” was a house (tent) of horrors. Still beats slaughter, since you know, a horse hanging on hook just can’t be helped. Starvation beats Slaughter!! 😉

Some won’t like my flip endorsement of your statement, “Starvation beats Slaughter”…but I agree. A starving equine in the field or barn has a chance at another life….a slaughtered one has none.

But the PSAs LOVE to say that starvation is worse than slaughter. Yeah. Right. Anyone ever ask the horse? Besides, a starving horse doesn’t enter the human food chain poisoning humans. Also, it is a false argument….evil is evil. Starving and slaughter are both evil. I still find slaughter MORE evil because it involves known cruelty, highway safety, animal disease and contaminated meat affecting hundreds of thousands of humans unwittingly exposing their sale animals to diseased animals, drivers on our roads and eating dirty meat that can cause illness for humans.

I think every horse rescued deserves a chance unless, the upon vet examination or the horse is in such dire straights and pain that immediate euthanasia is the most humane option. Most starving horses, can be rehabilitated with proper care and diet. What was so bad about this rescue with Buddy, is the veterinarian, who is the expert, had said, bloodwork was OK and buddy had a good chance, yet the pros wanted him put down.

What was funny was the idiot pro who kept saying she knew about blood chemistry and it doesn’t show if there is organ damage. She knew this because she had a kidney problem or something and had blood work run often. I guess she’s stayed at a Holiday Inn Express too.

I don’t disagree with your post. I would, however say that when it comes to food safety, animal welfare and equine human consumption horse slaughter (HCHS)…vets are frequently NOT on the side of animals…..they serve the humans and all that comes with that.

Yes, there are good vets, but they are overwhelmed by the bad ones….just humankind with bad people.

I repeat to the world…you brought an equine into the world (or own it) and don’t want it?…humanely euth it because HCHS is NOT humane euthanasia.

Is slaughter beats starvation like take away your drivers license because you might get into an accident? They invent the most outlandish arguments I’ve ever seen or heard. Kill a horse because it might starve? Kill horses to save the horse industry – an industry that makes it’s billions on live horses. Or the other hysterical one – you should not be heard if you don’t own a horse. Does that mean if you don’t have a child you can’t speak out on child abuse or if you don’t have cancer you can’t support ending cancer? I have never seen such a concentrated group that is so illogical and void of common sense. Do they not realize that everyone’s tax dollars pay for horse slaughter and the ensuing mess and every taxpayer has a constitutional right to be heard? Horse slaughter is the cancer of the horse industry – just ask the tracks…

My favorite is still the property rights argument. They take their horses to auction to sell them. When slaughter ends, they can still take their horses to auctions to sell them. Can someone explain what “rights” they are loosing?

I’m sure their answer will be equal parts bizarre and hilarious. Besides, Sue doesn’t own a single horse and she leads the charge to kill them all and presumes to speak for MY industry? I don’t think so…..

Wonderful picture of Buddy! He does look like a horse again. Great! See, you stoopid PSAs? So blood tests don’t show organ damage, huh? In-credible! PSAs never cease to inspire me with their utter ignorance. They make me look pretty darn intellugent.

Well, thanks for the continued laughs. I know for me, like many, there are days that I am just so damn depressed and frustrated at the horrors going on daily and how hard it is to get such BLATANT wrongs righted. I really appreciate the emotional release this blog affords. Thanks 😀

Denise, I agree – Slaughter or starvation, if the end result is a torturous death, dead becomes dead. How can evil beat evil? My response to Nancy is based on all the fun we had, way back when, on group that – correct me if I’m wrong, Jamie DeHartless had set up. I believe it was our introduction to the bright lights of Daffy and friends as well. I’m very blocked from most, honestly have little time these days to play on facebook and am unsure that group still exists? Slaughter Beats Starvation was the name of it at any rate and boy did they get all kinds of upset when I asked them how an evil horrendous death could possibly beat an evil horrendous death? Of course, it doesn’t, the key to starvation cases is finding the starving horses prior to their actually dying. My lucky seven are just that, lucky. Just like horses who leave the auction not with a killbuyer are lucky. It’s the luck of the draw for our horses. Doesn’t need to be to so…

Just listened to Mindy Patterson & Loos on the link above. My head is spinning again. Just a couple of examples: the state with the toughest animal abuse laws is CA and the state with the most arrests is CA while the states with the most lenient laws are, oh heck I forget which 2 and refuse to listen to that banality again, and they have the fewest arrests. This is supposed to prove the making animal abuse a felony doesn’t work. Dipshits aren’t smart enough to realize that there are no arrests in states with lax animal welfare laws cuz there is no law on the books to charge them with. Then Mindy & Loos decide that the inspector at the Celebration who turned down 40% of the horses testing positive for soring had it in for the horse sorers and must be part of some HSUS plot to destroy the industry. At this point my brain started bashing itself against my skull and I couldn’t listen to part 2. Like they said at the DNC its all about arithmetic. 2+2 still equals 4 but not in PSA land. Now excuse me while I erupt in gales of laughter.

I know, Morgan! I just listened to that crap, too. If you don’t have animal abuse laws in your state, well, hell, I guess you won’t have any animal abuse crimes taking place. She is right about one thing…these horses are very expensive and well bred. She doesn’t get this part, though: Most Tennessee Walkers that have been ruined by the show circuit end up in slaughter.
Maybe nobody showed up in Shelbyville because they don’t care to see these beautiful horses stomping around miserably in a circle. It isn’t entertainment for most. Maybe fewer and fewer people are into Walking horse shows these days. Or maybe they heard that Mindy Puppymill Patterson was going to be there. In any case, Tennessee has plenty of other sources of income besides the horse shows in Shelbyville. Tennessee is a beautiful state with many beautiful tourist attractions. It could be they don’t want to risk losing tourists who are not willing to spend money in a state where horses are poorly treated. After all, they didn’t succeed in convincing Tennesseans to support a horse slaughter plant in their state. Maybe Tennessee is evolving? Puppyshitmill Patterson needs to take her pompous ass back to North Dakota and stay there. We don’t need her coming south whining about how decent and humane we are. We LIKE being decent and humane.